All articles tagged with #brain plasticity
Using fMRI with 47 heterosexual men, the study shows the nucleus accumbens encodes a romantic partner differently from friends early in romance, but as relationships endure the neural distinction fades, suggesting a shift from passionate love to companionate love; results are cross-sectional and limited in sample diversity.
Engaging in creative activities like dancing, music, art, or playing strategy video games is linked to a younger-looking brain and slower brain aging, with long-term practice providing stronger benefits. Even short-term creative training can improve brain aging markers, suggesting that regular creative engagement supports neural health and cognitive resilience.
Practicing Tai Chi for eight weeks can lead to significant improvements in brain structure and function, including enhanced memory, focus, and cognitive flexibility, supported by scientific research showing rapid neurological benefits and long-term brain health advantages.
A week-long meditation retreat combining various mind-body techniques led to significant rapid changes in brain activity, immune response, metabolism, and gene expression, demonstrating how consciousness-based practices can positively influence physical health and neuroplasticity, with effects similar to psychedelics, though further clinical research is needed.
A 7-day intensive meditation retreat combining various mind-body techniques led to rapid, measurable changes in brain function, blood chemistry, and immune response, suggesting these practices can significantly impact physical and mental health by enhancing neuroplasticity, pain relief, and immune activity.
A neuroscientist shares his personal journey of overcoming addiction through understanding and harnessing brain plasticity, emphasizing that recovery involves reshaping memories and neural connections, much like the philosophical ship of Theseus, and highlights the importance of connection and positive memories in healing.
Engaging in creative hobbies like painting, gaming, or music can help slow down brain aging by improving brain communication, organization, and protecting key areas like the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus, with benefits increasing the more consistently you participate.
A study reveals that Prozac (fluoxetine) not only increases serotonin but also enhances brain plasticity by loosening rigid neural circuits, reducing mitochondrial energy gene expression, and weakening protective nets around neurons, potentially aiding depression recovery.
A study reveals that musicians experience less pain and have more refined brain maps related to hand control, suggesting that musical training can rewire the brain to reduce pain sensitivity and response, highlighting potential for new pain management therapies.
A five-year study supported by NSF investigates how dopamine may regulate myelin plasticity in the brain, particularly in response to social isolation, with implications for understanding and treating neuropsychiatric and neurodegenerative conditions.
Research suggests that musicians experience less pain and have more refined brain maps related to hand control, likely due to their extensive training, which may provide a buffer against pain and influence how their brains respond to it.
New research published in Nature Neuroscience challenges long-held beliefs about brain plasticity, showing that the brain's body map remains stable even years after amputation, which has significant implications for treating phantom limb pain and developing prosthetic technologies.
A recent study published in Nature Neuroscience challenges the long-held belief that the brain's body map reorganizes after limb amputation. Instead, the research shows that the brain's representation of the missing limb remains stable for years, which has significant implications for understanding phantom limb sensations and developing prosthetic technologies. The findings suggest that therapies targeting brain map reorganization may be ineffective, and future approaches should focus on nerve signaling and brain-computer interfaces.
A new study published in Nature Neuroscience challenges the long-held belief that the brain's body map reorganizes itself after limb amputation. Researchers found that the brain's representation of the missing limb remains stable even years after amputation, which has implications for understanding phantom limb sensations and developing prosthetic technologies. The findings suggest that therapies targeting brain map reorganization may be ineffective, and future approaches should focus on nerve signaling and brain-computer interfaces.
A study shows that the brain's map of the body remains unchanged even years after amputation, challenging previous beliefs about brain reorganization and providing hope for brain-computer interfaces and phantom limb pain treatment.